A.armlet or anklet, “ψέλιον περὶ ἑκατέρῃ τῶν κνημέων” Hdt.4.168; mostly in pl. ψέλια, a favourite ornament of the Persians, Id.3.20, 22, 9.80, X.An.1.2.27, Cyr.1.3.2; worn by women in Egypt, BGU1101.8 (i B. C.), POxy.259.11 (i A. D.), etc., and in Greece, Plu.2.142c.
ψέλιον , later sts. ψέλλιον (v. l. in X.Cyr.1.3.2, never in Hdt.), POsl.46.8 (iii A. D.), Supp.Epigr.7.428 (Dura, iii A. D.), in Inscrr. ψίλιον , ψίλλιον (qq. v.), τό:—
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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